Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que

Oklahoma Joe began in competition barbecue and the Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS).

Joining friends at the American Royal and The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle inspired Jeff Stehney to get started cooking on his own.

Over the next several seasons Slaughterhouse Five won dozens more awards and was generally recognized as one of the top competition BBQ teams in the country.

[1] In 2005, the Stehneys opened their second Oklahoma Joe's restaurant in a former nightclub space at 119th & Strang Line Road in Olathe, Kansas.

The Leawood restaurant is located near 119th and Roe Ave in an extensively remodeled building that formerly housed a TGI Friday's.